Soups & Sauces

Salt is primarily used to enhance flavor in soups, sauces and gravies. This food category contributes a disproportionate amount of sodium to our diets. It has historically been difficult to reduce the amount of sodium chloride in soups, sauces and gravies, but replacing some salt with potassium salt can maintaining the desired flavor profile.

The Benefits of Salt for Life® 100 for Soups & Sauces

Sodium Reduction

Salt for Life® 100 has achieved significant levels of sodium reduction in soups, sauces & gravies of up to 50% (please reference a sampling of our application successes below).

Functionality

Salt for Life® 100 has demonstrated its ability to maintain shelf-life qualities equivalent to sodium chloride in multiple soup, sauce and gravy recipes.

Cost

As noted above, using Salt for Life® 100 often allows for the removal of multiple ingredients from a recipe — thus delivering a cost-neutral or less expensive solution. Furthermore, the incremental cost of using Salt for Life® 100 without removing additional ingredients is only a fraction of a penny per serving.

Taste

Professional sensory studies for soups and sauces have confirmed that there is no discernible difference in taste when Salt for Life® 100 was substituted for sodium chloride — even at significant reduction levels.

Cleaner Label

Using Salt for Life® 100 oftentimes provides the opportunity to remove multiple ingredients from a recipe — thus delivering a simpler and ‘cleaner label’.

Usage

In most applications, Salt for Life® 100 can be used as a 1:1 replacement for sodium chloride at up to a 50% replacement, and generally requires no modification to the order of inclusion.